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I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.